Celebrating last-place finishes at the Olympics. Because they're there, and you're not.

Thursday, August 21, 2008

Rogge vs. Bolt

DFL is, at its most basic, a call for people to lay off the athletes. So, even though it has nothing to do with last-place finishes, I thoroughly enjoyed Dan Wetzel's tear into IOC president Jacques Rogge for Rogge's criticism of Usain Bolt's behaviour after winning his medals. He, ah, doesn't pull any punches. "Jacques Rogge is so bought, so compromised, the president of the IOC doesn’t have the courage to criticize China for telling a decade of lies to land itself these Olympic Games," Dan writes. "Instead, he has flexed his muscles by unloading on a powerless sprinter from a small island nation. ... Oh, this is richer than those bribes and kickbacks the IOC got caught taking." In a nutshell: neither Rogge nor the IOC has any business being this patronizing.

About Me

Name: Jonathan Crowe

Location: Shawville, Quebec, Canada

Jonathan is the author of The Map Room, a blog about maps, and DFL, a blog about last-place finishes at the Olympics. He also has a personal blog and runs Gartersnake.info. When not correcting other people's grammar, Jonathan raises snakes, plays the piano and looks through his telescope.